Ivan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From the late sixties through the mid-seventies—when his influence was greatest—this learned Roman Catholic became a countercultural guru, notorious for facing a 1968 Vatican inquisition that led him to cease exercising his priesthood, though he . . . . Continue Reading »
“I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry. . . I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place . . . . Continue Reading »
The extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well. Continue Reading »
Solidarity in prayer is the first duty of American Catholics toward the new president today. Continue Reading »
Brave men and women of “Courage,” thank you for your witness. Continue Reading »
Tom had a deep sense that these things God had given us were infused with the presence of grace. Continue Reading »
Judge Barrett deserves better than a partisan endorsement. Continue Reading »
Amy Coney Barrett is a nightmare for a certain kind of political tribe. Continue Reading »
San Francisco continues to place unrealistic and suffocating restrictions on our natural and constitutional right to worship. Continue Reading »
If the Chinese Communist Party manages to bring the Catholic Church and other religious communities to heel, regimes that disdain human rights will be emboldened. Continue Reading »
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